El Chapulín Colorado (lost episodes; 1973-1979)

El Chapulín Colorado

"Aventuras en Venus", one of the undistributed episodes.

Status

0/30 episodes found

El Chapulín Colorado is one of the most familiar characters of the Mexican culture. First conceived by Roberto "Chespirito" Bolaños in 1970 as part of his solo effort Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada, "El Chapulín Colorado" is a response to the typical American superhero: he is clever as one would expect, but not without overcoming his own silliness first. Despite this, "El Chapulín" is always willing to help his summoners no matter the situation, even if this means helping his enemies.

As an independent series, around 280 episodes of El Chapulín Colorado were aired between 1973 and 1979, from which about 30 are absent from Televisa's current distribution pack, certainly for the same reason as many El Chavo del Ocho episodes.

Contents

Missing Episodes

Below is a complete list of all episodes whose existence is proven through information gathered by fans.

Green - Found episodes available in Spanish.Gold - Found episodes not available in Spanish.Orange - Partially available episodes/excerpts.Red - Completely missing episodes.

Note: the episode titles used in here are not official, since the actual titles are unknown due to the episodes' missing nature. Titles from previous/later versions of the episodes are used instead (For example: the missing 1973 episode "Las caricaturas me hacen llorar" is named after its common 1976 remake).

Season 1 (1973)

Title

Original Airdate

"R.S.E."

March 07, 1973

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía.[1] Includes a Doctor Chapatín segment. A remake, made in 1975, is also missing.

"Las caricaturas me hacen llorar"

Unknown

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía. Includes a Doctor Chapatín segment.

"En las guerras médicas, la bayoneta se llamaba bisturí"

Unknown

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía.

"Aventuras en Venus"

Unknown

Found through a tape recording from early 90's. Only available in Brazilian Portuguese, rendering the original audio missing.

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía. A remake, made in 1975, is also missing.

Season 2 (1974)

Title

Original Airdate

"La bella durmiente era un señor muy feo - parte 1"

January 25, 1974

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía.[3] First episode of a two-episode saga. Remade in 1976 as a three-episode saga, whose first episode is also missing. Coincidence or not, another remake - made in 1982 as part of Programa Chespirito - is also missing its first episode.

"Más vale cien fantasmas volando que uno en la mano"

Unknown

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía.

"Colección de rateros"

Unknown

Footage of this episode is used on "Conferencia sobre un Chapulín", an episode that served the purpose of introducing the series to the viewers of Canal 2, after it moved from Canal 8 in 1974.

A brief summary of this episode is present in the beginning of "La bella durmiente era un señor muy feo - parte 2". First episode of a three-episode saga. Remake of a two-episode saga from 1973, whose first episode is also missing.

Discovered through a synopsis from Tele-Guía.[11] Not much is known about this episode, but its synopsis suggests that it may follow the same concept as the 1974 episode "Conferencia sobre un Chapulín", featuring excerpts of episodes from the 1976 season.

Seasons 5-7 (1977-1979)

Title

Original Airdate

"A pistola regalada no le mires agujero - parte 1"

Unknown, 1977

A brief summary of this episode is present in the beginning of "A pistola regalada no le mires agujero - parte 2".

"Todo sube, hasta los aviones - parte 2"

Unknown, 1977

Announced in the end of "Todo sube, hasta los aviones - parte 1".

"Las pulgas"

Unknown, 1978

Aired regularly through Brazilian network SBT. Only available in Brazilian Portuguese, rendering the original audio missing. Includes the Doctor Chapatín segment "El contrabando".

References

Special thanks to Cássio Ferreira, Guilherme Leão and several other members of Fórum Chaves (a complete name list is available on the "Guia de episódios..." link below), for their priceless contributions on the finding of synopses related to missing episodes.

Aristócratas Vemos, Rateros No Sabemos is not missing, I don't know why is marked as such, I used to watch it as a little boy (I'm 17 years old, from Mexico) here's the full episode in youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVUWi5wAgHo